Ariel's birthday

Ariel went to Build-A-Bear with her friend Anna. She is now 7 years old! Today, January 30, is Ariel's official birthday. She has been celebrating it with different people for over a week now!

Ariel and Fed-ex man

Ariel accepts our referral from the Fed-ex delivery man on 12-9-05.

Itinerary

Feb. 9-- Th Depart for China

Feb. 10--Fr Arrive in Beijing

Feb. 11--Sat Beijing Sight-Seeing: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and
Summer Palace, Silk Factory, and Jade Factory

Feb. 12--Sun International Church Service (for passport holders only) & Great Wall (Beijing Duck Dinner)

Feb. 13--Mon Flight to Nanchang--MEET KAYLI

Feb. 14--Tues VALENTINES DAY!! Paperwork and Sight-seeing & Shopping

Feb. 15-16 W-Th (same as above)

Feb. 17-Fr Afternoon flight to Guangzhou

Feb. 18 Sat Kayli's medical exam

Feb. 19 Sun Filling out Consulate Forms

Feb. 20--Mon Sightseeing and Shopping

Feb. 21 Tu Consulate Appointment at 10:30am

Feb. 22 -W Pick-up Kayli's Visa at 3:00pm

Feb. 23 Th Depart from Guangzhou ------GOING HOME!!!!!


Today, we received our Passport with Visa stamp! BIG PRAISE since we
had a problem with the shipping company.
Our friends DID get their Travel Approval today! We have been praying
that they would hear soon!
That's it for now!

Visas

On January 6 I sent a UPS package with our visas in it to a Courier in Maryland. She received the package on Tuesday the 10th and dropped the package off to get our visas on the 11th. She picked them up on the 17th since they were closed for the holiday on the 16th. When the package arrived to her door on the 11th she said that there was a HUGE rip in the package and she was EXTREMELY surprised that all of the Passports were still there. WHEW!! So when she went to drop the package off at the UPS store they wouldn't accept it since one of the air bill's were missing. So we made arrangement with both UPS stores that allowed us to fill out new air bills (no charge) and now the package should be here on the 20th! We will be glad to have this in our hands since this is the last of the paperwork to be done before we leave.

Tickets have been purchased and we are now getting packed.

We have some friends that have not yet received their travel approval. Their agency does not release any travel information until this approval is received. They are so bummed. We both received our referrals on the same day. Please pray that they will have a peace about this situation and that their travel approval will come quickly.
Thanks!

Travel Approval/Consulate Appointment

On Friday, January 6 we sent for our passports to get our visas and confirmed our flight tickets even though we did not have concrete travel dates. (It ended up working out PERFECTLY!-- What a God thing!)

On Tuesday, January 10, 2006, we got our Travel Approval!

On Thursday, January 12, 2006 we got our Consulate Appointment

We are getting packed and ready to leave!

Please pray for us as we prepare and travel.

Kayli--we are on our way!